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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Jul 2020

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Angus Johnston

    Fascinating history: how 23 yo John Lewis' speech was moderated by MLK & older organizers. Given their movement's dramatic success over the next 25 months, this is probably a good lesson for today's 20-something activists: your most pointed barbs may not be advancing the cause.https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1284472208006545408 …

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    Angus JohnstonVerified account @studentactivism
    John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington—where MLK gave the "I have a dream" speech—and the speech Lewis wrote that day was so incendiary that the march organizers wouldn't let him deliver it as written.
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      1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Jul 2020

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted @ijbailey

        Also a fair point that applies across political movements.https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1284529289866678275 …

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        @ijbailey @ijbailey
        The real lesson in this is clear, that those who have been in the civil rights fight for a long time should embrace and mentor the younger generation rather than scolding or excluding them, because together they can become an unstoppable force for good. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1284502431158751232 …
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      2. Mike L‏ @Mjleo45 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        The opposite lesson is clear. The "barbs", the sharpest moral forces, among them John Lewis, ended up transforming the country. Yeah, his speech was edited tactically, but bare honesty and radical insight underlied his lifetime of change. John Lewis was obviously not a centrist.

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      3. sp6r=underrated‏ @sp6runderrated 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @Mjleo45 @baseballcrank

        I fully agree Lewis wasn't a centrist. But @baseballcrank point is correct. Tone does matter even if you're right entirely as Lewis was. The edited speech was more effective at accomplishing the movement's goals. Which is what counts.

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      2. Dr. Spaceman‏ @black_masc 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        John Lewis died today, of natural causes. MLK was shot to death in 1968.

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      3. Kevin R.  🇦🇷 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇿🇦‏ @KevinRJones93 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @black_masc @baseballcrank

        And? Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and other black leaders also died of natural causes and were not assassinated like MLK, who was the sad exception on that regard.

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      1. CanGal  🥄‏ @CanGal_39 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        pic.twitter.com/ke5VOs1x3L

        Cartoon depicting a person completely missing the point of what they just read.
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      2. hood spiritualist hustler brimming with godfidence‏ @sunoppositemoon 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Civility has saved no one.pic.twitter.com/xBNjK4ilRs

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      3. Kevin R.  🇦🇷 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇿🇦‏ @KevinRJones93 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @sunoppositemoon @baseballcrank

        Uncivility ALSO often saves no one, too, if you don't believe that, look on the French and Russian revolutions...

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      1. Lord Dougman W. Godspeed  🇸🇩‏ @vertov 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Yeah, police brutality is no longer a problem, good thinking there baseball man.

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      2. fruit springsteen‏ @prismxp 18 Jul 2020
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        fruit springsteen Retweeted fruit springsteen

        good faith response: the very first line stricken from Lewis’s speech was warning the legislation. didn’t address police brutality. Wouldn’t it have vastly advanced the cause & prevented this moment if it had? Seems like points *against* moderation https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1284334760844820480?s=21 …https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1284334760844820480 …

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        fruit springsteen @prismxp
        John Lewis was the youngest speaker @ the March on Washington — his speech was heavily censored to avoid offending key Democratic votes. The first line striken from his speech? “There's not one thing in the [Civil Rights Act] that will protect our people from police brutality” pic.twitter.com/jMT2I1yuWk
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      3. Brandon Shafer‏ @BoilerBrando 18 Jul 2020
        Replying to @prismxp @baseballcrank

        Not if it poisoned the legislation and they didn’t get anything.

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